u/micholasnitchell

Okay so most will assume I’m not decontaminating correctly, or claying or I’m using one bucket with a ten year old mitt. But let’s please work under the assumption that my wash and prep techniques are fine. So I’ve got a 2015 black Jaguar XF sportsbrake. For me it’s a massive car, so detailing it and paint correcting takes days. Anyway, I’ve been using Koch Chemie F6 and M3 with new corresponding pads, along with a Flex XFE 7-12 80 forced rotation polisher. I’m only on my first panel (OSF wing) but I’m finding that after multiple passes the panel looks fine; but as soon as I wipe it down with panel wipe, I’m seeing holograms and marring. I spent 1.5 hours on this front wing today, using different methods, force etc. but I still can’t get it right. Granted it looks better than the rest of the car, but I’m still left with marring which I know will look 100x worse with the sun out beaming on the paint work. I also really do not want to carry on spending days doing the whole car, and then in a months time on a summers day it looks like it’s been for a drive through swirl city! Has anyone got any experience with the Koch Chemie, or this type of JLR paint? Days like this I wish I just bought a silver car!

Okay so most will assume I’m not decontaminating correctly, or claying or I’m using one bucket with a ten year old mitt. But let’s please work under the assumption that my wash and prep techniques are fine. So I’ve got a 2015 black Jaguar XF sportsbrake. For me it’s a massive car, so detailing it and paint correcting takes days. Anyway, I’ve been using Koch Chemie F6 and M3 with new corresponding pads, along with a Flex XFE 7-12 80 forced rotation polisher. I’m only on my first panel (OSF wing) but I’m finding that after multiple passes the panel looks fine; but as soon as I wipe it down with panel wipe, I’m seeing holograms and marring. I spent 1.5 hours on this front wing today, using different methods, force etc. but I still can’t get it right. Granted it looks better than the rest of the car, but I’m still left with marring which I know will look 100x worse with the sun out beaming on the paint work. I also really do not want to carry on spending days doing the whole car, and then in a months time on a summers day it looks like it’s been for a drive through swirl city! Has anyone got any experience with the Koch Chemie, or this type of JLR paint? Days like this I wish I just bought a silver car!

So I’m trying to get the bottom of why I seem to swirl my cars even though I’m extremely meticulous with my washing technique (2 buckets, 2 mitts etc.).. and I can only pin it down to when I dry the car. I am drying the car with a dry towel, and I’m starting to think the friction from the dry towel fibres is causing abrasion on the paint work. Am I taking this too far? I see a lot of online detailers use dry towels and I guess they don’t have these issues. Do you guys damp your drying towels or do you just go ahead and use them?

So I’m trying to get the bottom of why I seem to swirl my cars even though I’m extremely meticulous with my washing technique (2 buckets, 2 mitts etc.).. and I can only pin it down to when I dry the car. I am drying the car with a dry towel, and I’m starting to think the friction from the dry towel fibres is causing abrasion on the paint work. Am I taking this too far? I see a lot of online detailers use dry towels and I guess they don’t have these issues. Do you guys damp your drying towels or do you just go ahead and use them?